The PRIO Cyprus Centre, UCLan Cyprus and the Estonian Research Council are co-organizing a conference titled, “Contested Borderlands as Spaces of Negotiation and Adaptation”.
This high-level international conference brings together an outstanding lineup of border studies scholars, and offers a unique opportunity to explore the complex dynamics of borders and boundaries as barriers and bridges, in one of the most interesting locations in the world.
The conference will be held at the Cyprus campus of the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan Cyprus) in Pyla, the last Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot mixed village in Cyprus. It will take place in the United Nations buffer zone, and just a few hundred metres from one of the two British military bases on the island.
In addition to the academic programme, the conference will also include two days of optional excursions. The first will be to Nicosia, the divided capital city, and the second will be to Varosha, the recently opened fenced-off ‘ghost city’. This will provide participants with the opportunity to see first-hand the practical dimensions of one of the most intractable disputes in modern international relations.
Participant registration with a fee is until 13 April 2025.
Read more https://brit.uclancyprus.ac.cy/.
